The pupils laughed at the sight of their teacher dancing a minuet in the yard.

小学生们一看到他们的老师在院子里跳小舞步都笑起来了。

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A spirited court dance, popular in France and England in the 17th and 18th centuries, resembling a minuet but faster.

17世纪和18世纪流行于法国和英国的一种轻快活泼的官廷舞蹈，类似小步舞，但稍快一些。

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Egret in a minuet.

白鹭在跳小步舞。

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The result has the elegance of a formal dance - a kind of minuet, in which the participants advance and retreat according to well-understood rules, until they have arrived at a satisfactory outcome.

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Beneath his reassuring words, though, a complicated diplomatic minuet is clearly under way in northern Asia.

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